The US leads the world in artificial intelligence technology. Decades of federal research funding, industrial and academic research, and streams of foreign talent...WiredFrom ACM Opinion | February 12, 2019

Winston Smith works at the Ministry of Truth. Each day, the hero of George Orwell's "1984" "corrects" old newspapers to make sure that the information is in still...The Washington PostFrom ACM Opinion | February 11, 2019

The average person would have to spend 76 working days reading all of the digital privacy policies they agree to in the span of a year. Reading Amazon's terms and...The New York TimesFrom ACM Opinion | February 7, 2019

On Tuesday, Wikipedia celebrates its 18th birthday. If the massive crowdsourced encyclopedia project were human, then in most countries, it would just now be considered...The Washington PostFrom ACM Opinion | January 15, 2019

As the new Congress begins, it will soon discuss the comprehensive reports to the U.S. Senate on the disinformation campaign of half-truths, outright fabrications...The ConversationFrom ACM News | January 9, 2019

Imagine American politics for a moment as a laboratory experiment. A foreign adversary (let's call it "Russia") begins to play with the subjects, using carrots...The Washington PostFrom ACM Opinion | December 28, 2018

Personal technology was so awful this year that nobody would think you were paranoid if you dug a hole and buried your computer, phone and smart speaker under six...The New York TimesFrom ACM Opinion | December 26, 2018

Last Wednesday, a day after Google's C.E.O., Sundar Pichai, sat before the House Judiciary Committee to answer questions about the company's search engine,Donald...The New YorkerFrom ACM Opinion | December 26, 2018

With Microsoft's decision to end development of its own Web rendering engine and switch to Chromium, control over the Web has functionally been ceded to Google....Ars TechnicaFrom ACM Opinion | December 20, 2018

Social media has played a key role in the recent rise of violent right-wing extremism in the United States, including three recent incidents—one in which a man...The New York TimesFrom ACM Opinion | November 26, 2018

In my book Data and Goliath, I write about the value of privacy. I talk about how it is essential for political liberty and justice, and for commercial fairness...WiredFrom ACM Opinion | November 16, 2018

Western bigwigs were a no-show at China's biggest web conference. But in their absence, the local overseers of the nation's technology industry were only too happy...BloombergFrom ACM Opinion | November 9, 2018

The Facebook video is nuts, but I can't tear my eyes away. A plane, struggling in a huge storm, does a 360-degree flip before safely landing and letting out terrified...The Washington PostFrom ACM Opinion | October 23, 2018

In the summer of 1995, a second-year grad student called Sergey Brin was giving a tour of Stanford University to prospective students. Larry Page, an engineering...The GuardianFrom ACM Opinion | September 24, 2018

As millions of people came online in the late 1990s they needed help figuring out what each webpage was about, and how to find what they were looking for.
The ConversationFrom ACM Opinion | September 6, 2018

Exactly 10 years ago Tuesday, a newly promoted vice president named Sundar Pichai stood before a group of tech reporters in a conference room at Google's Mountain...CNETFrom ACM Opinion | September 5, 2018